Jadakiss is known for his signature laugh, and he’s now explained exactly where it originated from.
The LOX legend joined the I AM ATHLETE podcast, where he detailed how he used the laugh to break up the monotony of some verses due to his raspy flow in the booth.
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According to Kiss, his engineer is the one who recognized the appeal of his laugh and left it in one of his recordings — and the rest is history.
“My engineer, [Dragan ‘Chach’ Cacinovic], I think he’s from Croatia. Ruff Ryders introduced us to him and he worked with us for years,” Jada explained. “I was recording some verses and my voice is so raspy sometimes, I’m clogged up, I would do that as a tension breaker to clear my throat and my voice before I’m about to do the verse.
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“[I] never intended on him keeping it. So I do it, I get out to come heat the verse and he kept it! I’m like, ‘What’s that?’ ‘Nah, you gotta leave that.’ I’m like, ‘iight.’ So then I just started doing it and people started loving it!”
He continued: “Aunties coming up to me in the morning, ‘Hey, ain’t you that boy who make that sound?’ Then it just became my signature trademark.”
Elsewhere in the interview, the 47-year-old rhymer called out record labels for taking life insurance policies on artists to ensure they still profit in case they pass away. He also said he believes that labels should be held accountable for the violent lyrics promoted in their artists’ music.
“Record labels are being successful off nonsense,” Jadakiss said. “Somebody went out, did something stupid, recorded a song about it and was able to get a lot of streams, and that became a thing with the whole drill scene. They actually going out, gettin’ active and doin’ stuff and then go into the studio and make a song about what they just did. That should get nipped in the bud as soon as it got created.
“But nobody’s going to these labels saying they wrong for this. We just blaming it on the kids. So, like my brother said, he don’t like to just put all the blame on these young artists because the radio stations are making them the top songs of the playlist. And the labels are still signing them.”
He added: “They even got it — they puttin’ out life insurance on these young kids now. Others were surprised at the revelation, but it’s been common for some time. The labels. ‘Cause they gamblin’ on you to do something dumb, so they can profit after you die. So, this is getting ridiculous.”
